Sentence examples for by precipitous from inspiring English sources

Sikkim is a basin surrounded on three sides by precipitous mountain walls.

Likewise, the "Disgracers," wanna-be heroes whose insolence is punished by precipitous descent, are both terrifying and ridiculous in their tumble through space, all foreshortened limbs, jaws, and noses.

I'm jogging through an arctic wasteland: a barren, jagged landscape punctuated by precipitous cliff drops, perilous ice columns and the scant remains of civilisation – a crumbling rope-ladder here, a shipwreck there.

The main island, with an area of about 2 square miles (5 square km), is a rugged half-crater rising to some 1,100 feet (340 metres) and girded by precipitous coastal cliffs.

As the story goes, on one occasion the cowboys forgot to open the gate and the remaining horses all died of thirst out on the point, within view of the Colorado river below but trapped by precipitous cliffs.

Among downhill aficionados the word "flat" often finds its way into descriptions of Norway's skiing potential, yet as I sat on our sunny terrace surrounded by precipitous pinnacles I put such comments down to malicious propaganda.

The spleen of PrPKO mice shows 62% less 59Fe after 1 hour, an increase by 831% after 4 hours, followed by a precipitous fall by 64% of Wt values after 24 hours that is maintained throughout 11 days of chase (Figure 7, spleen).

A greater challenge domestically is Iran's economy, strained by sanctions and by a precipitous drop in its currency's value in the past two years.

"The pessimists were too influenced by credit markets freezing, by bank balance sheets and by the precipitous fall in home prices," he maintains.

In the second quarter, Taiwan's GDP fell by 2.4% over a year earlier, led by a precipitous decline in exports.

Iran's economy is struggling, weighed down by rampant inflation and undermined by the precipitous drop in oil prices.